Racing through the swampland: de Sitter uplift vs. weak gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2018)099MaRDI QIDQ1797336zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jakob Moritz, Thomas Van Riet

Publication date 19 October 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00944

zbMATH Keywords

flux compactificationssuperstring vacuasupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We observe that racetrack models for moduli stabilization are in tension with strong forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). Moreover, recently, it was noted that controlled KKLT-type de Sitter vacua seem to require a racetrack fine-tuning of the type introduced by Kallosh and Linde. We combine these observations and conclude that the quests for realizing parametrically large axion decay constants and controlled de Sitter vacua are intimately related. Finally, we discuss possible approaches to curing the conflict between the racetrack scheme and the WGC.

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